Re: [SLUG] Distro on a CD (off the shelf, or off the burner)

[CaT <cat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:48:33AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
> >Mehmet's suggestion of LiveCD was great - I'll definitely be using this in
> >the future... :)
> 
> My experience with live FS on CD distros is that they are fine for
> demoing and some exploration but are not suitable for serious work,

I've seen a sysadmin move from one part of a site to another with a
livecd type of setup. He'd go to the other site, plop in his cd, boot
and do his serious work in the environment he liked (had X etc running)
and then pullt he CD out and leave the computer as it was before he
arrived.

Worked amazingly well.

> unless you put volatile data in RAM or HD. RAM is precious, and if you
> had a HD in the first place...

But the HD may be formated in say.. vfat. you can create yourself a file
with dd, run mke2fs on it, loopback mount it, use it to your hearts content,
umount it, delete it, reboot and remove the cd.

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